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Monday, August 15, 2005
A criminal ring, headed by the son of Suriname's former military dictator and now Member of Parliament, Desi Bouterse, was sentenced to serve time behind bars.
The young Bouterse was sentenced to eight years in prison for leading a gang, which included a police officer, that trafficked in cocaine, illlegal arms and stolen luxury cars.
Police squads arrested the gang members in September last year in a bust aimed at car smugglers. In an auto body shop south of the capital Paramaribo, police stumbled upon 11 stolen expensive luxury cars. The authorities also seized several AK-47 machine guns and more than one kilo of cocaine.
A couple of years ago, Bouterse, who at that time served at the Surinamese embassy in Brazil, was also named in a drugs investigation in Brazil. Brazilian law enforcement officers had found his name, telephone numbers and other information in the books of an arrested drug criminal.
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